Commissions
Christine has worked on many poetry commissions over the years.
2023
- Northlink - article and poem to celebrate Christmas 2023 for their social media
- The Scottish Gallery - introduction and poem to mark the opening of the exhibition The Northern Isles - Orkney and Shetland. The poem was Beyond Perspective
2009
- Scottish PEN - poems on the theme of Homecoming
2005
- Scalloway Castle - Earl Patrick and his mason, for the Scottish Poetry Library in partnership with The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. The theme was 'Poet in the past'
- The Hand that Sees - Poems for the quincentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, edited by Stewart Conn, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in association with the Scottish Poetry Library
2004
- A Child's Calendar of Feasts was written for the Scottish Poetry Library's National Poetry Day. The poems compared diets in 1930s Shetland to those in Lazio, Italy
- Fairdie Maet for BBC Radio Scotland, National Poetry Day. The theme was 'Food'. This poem was later published in Parallel Worlds
- A little nap rap, for The City of Edinburgh Council, anthology of Edinburgh Poems for Children
2003
- Home Comforts was written for the Scottish Poetry Library in partnership with The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. The theme was 'Poet in the House'
- Tirlin headicraa was written for BBC Radio Scotland's National Poetry Day. The theme of the programme was 'Transformation'. This poem was later published in Parallel Worlds
2002
- Celebrate in Wirds, was written for BBC Radio Scotland's National Poetry Day. The theme of the programme was 'Celebration'. This poem was later published in Parallel Worlds